UNIONDALE (AP) - The New York Islanders made sports history this
morning, trading every player in their organization (including the AHL
Bridgeport SoundTigers) for a 2020 fourth round draft pick, a bucket of
pucks, three Sparky dolls, and a large pizza. When asked about the
trade, general manager Garth Snow said "the draft pick will give us a
great deal of flexibility, and our scouts think that the Sparky dolls
have top-six forward potential." When dumbfounded reporters pointed out
to Snow that the Islanders would now be unable to ice a team and
therefore be required to forfeit all the games remaining in the 2013-14
season as well as the entire 2014-15 campaign, Snow stated that he
remained optimistic that "the solution to our problems could be found in
our locker room, and we are looking forward to our draft party."

anyway, garth spins it as breaking even. the islanders had the swedish kid as 22nd, which in their eyes makes him a 'first rounder' and he's got two years under his belt already. plus, habs make playoffs and there's your second rounder. so if you buy that, he got back what he had to ship to buff with mm...

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Islander fans!!! Do not be surprised if we become the Quebec Nordiques!!!! They will get a team very soon!!! 2017 to be exact!!!

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Here's a riddle! What does an ex-goalie GM and a billionaire Asian owner have in common? Answer; They both have no friggin' idea how to run a hockey organization! !

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Sell the team Wang!!!!! Your friggin' clueless like the people you hired to run the team!!!!

Bring in Patty Lafontaine to run this franchise.Garth Snow was a terrible goalie and is a horrid GM.Wake up Wang.

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After all these years of constant frustration, not to mention the fact that Garth Snow and the owner Charles Wang have absolutely no clue what they are doing. I think it's time to finally give up. Move this franchise, contract it, whatever just get it over with. Obviously they want to kill the remaining fan base. As for myself I'm done.

garth seems to think everyone was waiting on a kesler trade to see where he'd end up and then react (he doesn't name kesler but imo that's who he meant). when no one got kesler, everyone else stayed pat also.

is garth in Edmonton tonight? is he going to do some damage control on tv? with an interview with Howie or Jiggs

so tell us garth about those deals you made...

"uuuuuummmmmooooooo we acquired a player uuuuuuuuoooooo from Sweden? a kid my scouts like allot? uuuuuuummmmmmm we think in a few years uuuuuummmmoooooo he might be in the nhl? uuuuuooo should be fun! thank you no more questions!

Who cares it is the same old blah blah blah blah... you want to provide Islander Fans with insight and a story. Find out what those legitimate offers were that Snow turned down week ago. Now to me that is a story that would be worth hangin your hat on. Find out what that team from Calli was giving bet it blows this crime scene away.

Snow, with any luck, and a few more incompetent stumbles, has positioned this Franchise to witness the Sabres using the Islanders 2015 1st Round pick to select Connor McDavid...

So let's look at that possible tally sheet: Isles trade Matt Moulson, Thomas Vanek, Connor McDavid, and a high 2nd Round pick, for a fair to middling European prospect, and a probable mid 2nd Round pick...

Ed Olczyk on NHL live is backing up Garth Snows assessment that Ryan Kesler was the reason that all the trades got backed right up to the deadline. Everybody was waiting to see where Kesler went first. Either way Snow still dropped the ball yesterday. Snow dropped the ball three times in a row now. The mishandling of Nino and his trade, failing to get a goaltender in the off season and yesterday.

Said he might defer this years pick even if it's a top ten until next year when the draft is much deeper. Says he will continue to build through the draft which means our next playoff appearance will be in 2019! The only hope is once the team moves to Bklyn it's value will increase and Wang finally sells! Until then it will be only more misery for us long suffering Islander fans!

Did anybody read Snows comments yesterday about the up coming draft. He basically said they now have 8 draft picks in the first 4 rounds and he will be able to make a lot of moves with these picks at the draft. If there's any indication of what he received for Vanek yesterday then I like to know what kind of moves he can make a 1st,2- 2nd's,2-3rd's and 3 -4th rounders. Obviously he's keeping the 2014 1st rounder.

If you are focused on the draft and player development why would you not have a real scouting team? why would you have traded Nino who was rushed into the NHL only to become an AHL All-Star and develop into a solid player for Wild...none of what they do adds up just poor hockey decisions, preparation, and lack of ability to evaluate talent ie Bailey contract, Regin/PMB...hope Strome, de Haan, Nelson, Lee, Reinhart pan out because I feel for JT

@mrcisback only 3? don't buy it because that should have made team more desperate to make a move.

listen Snow is either a moron or he was told to make bad moves-

they over pay for Vanek only to dump him at the deadline? why would you take a huge risk like that? your team is fragile you have missing parts you're prospect pool is OK not great. overall you are a last place team you stink. if you're on the verge of a Stanley Cup you take huge risks-its bs turn off your set don't watch don't care if you can cancel msg and ignore the ny dogshtz

@ny711ot@puckznpadz why would you not make a better deal??? you know? MONEY they the ny dogshtz did not want to pick up any salary-meanwhile the ny dogshtz are not even paying Vanek his entire salary

the ny dogshtz are not willing to spend because their owner only cares about his pockets and screw winning ok!!!! so eff this team and be a fan of another team we should be on a quest that the ny dogshtz go out of business